# FUP ate my db

Gustavo Glusman (bmgustav@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il)
Sat, 25 May 1996 23:33:31 PDT

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    dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk wrote -
    >I'd just like to point out a `small' bug in FUP... if you try and
    >fileread() a
    >directory, it just keeps reading, and reading, and reading, and locks the
    >server up, and eventually runs out of memory and the server panics and dumps
    >db:

    I fail to reproduce this. Admittedly, filereading directories gives erratic
    results, but in our experience it never caused panics.
    What machine type are you using? What OS?

    >May 25 22:29:54: *** PANIC: memory allocation (size 34160) failed!
    >May 25 22:29:55: #235:more, line 19:  server panic
    >May 25 22:29:55: (End of traceback)
    >May 25 22:29:55: PANIC-DUMPING on deaddump3.db.PANIC ...
    >May 25 22:29:56: PANIC-DUMPING: Writing 306 objects...
    >May 25 22:30:00: PANIC-DUMPING: Done writing 306 objects...
    >May 25 22:30:00: PANIC-DUMPING: Writing 1474 MOO verb programs...
    >May 25 22:30:12: *** PANIC: memory allocation (size 12) failed!
    >May 25 22:30:12: *** RECURSIVE PANIC: aborting

    What are the (relevant) contents of #235:more ?

    slayer@pop.kaiwan.com wrote -
    >yeah I know, it also locks up if you try to read/write a file with ; or : in
    it...

    I have most probably misplaced your kind message reporting this failure....
    As TEf pointed out, yes, ; and : are stripped (among others) from the
    filenames. Not from the content.

    Let me just remind you that FUP was developed on SunOS, and that the
    developers take no responsibility for the results of using it, or stopping
    to use it, as described in the copyright.
    Reports about OS incompatibilities are welcome, as long as they include
    enough information to make sense of them.

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